Monster of the Day #1791

Updated on August 16, 2018 By Ken Begg 17 Comments

Today, just because I can, I will drive out any women thinking of a career in STEM. LOOK AT THAT!! Back to the kitchens with you, females.

One look at this and I also predict that GalaxyJane will end her military career in the very near future.

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  • Gamera977

    Qualified? Not only does she look fetching in a skimpy outfit but she’s such a good markswoman she can nail a disc-man without even looking at him!!!

    BTW: Wasn’t Discman a Sony product from the ’80s? Wellman should have sued them!

  • Not a hard prediction to make as I have been bragging about my upcoming retirement for almost a year, lol.

    Also, I never really left the kitchen as is obvious from my career-long war with military weight standards. OTOH it’s going to take a lot more than the offer of a cute pair of shorts to lure me out of my STEM job.

    How much you want to bet that Kuttner’s story was at least half written by his wife? You know, C L Moore, that fabulous woman SF writer whose existence (along with Andre Norton’ s and Leigh Brackett’s) we’re no longer allowed to acknowledge because that would mean that this generation of whiny snowflakes couldn’t support their claim to be “first”.

  • bgbear_rnh

    I was not a big SciFi reader as a kid, but loved Kuttner and then discovered Moore. Imagine my surprise . . .

  • bgbear_rnh

    Love a lady who can weld. Just like my cousin’s wife who can put many men to shame.

  • Flangepart

    I like a woman who can use a blaster like it’s supposed to be used!
    Yo, Galaxy Jane: What do you do in service? I don’t think I’ve ever heard about that.

  • KeithB

    If she runs out of blaster power, at least she has 2 extra missiles…

  • Eric Hinkle

    I will never ever understand why great authors like Moore, Brackett, and Norton are being ignored while that… creature, Marion Zimmer Bradley, is still exalted in certain circles.

  • It is really disturbing that she seems to be the biggest exception to the current, ridiculous, “no women existed in SF before the year 2000” narrative. Given what a complete monster she was (independent of her covering for Breen) it gives me pause to consider the honesty and real motivations of her champions. And that’s all I’m a-gonna say about that.

  • I’m a PA (Physician Assistant) in the Army National Guard. Started out as an enlisted medic before going to the dark side 12 years in. About to retire at Major, which has got to have everyone who was stuck with me as a fat Specialist with a big mouth and a bad attitude rolling in their graves (even the live ones). When I got off Active Duty in ’99, I swore I’d never go back in. Then that whole damn 9/11 thing happened and somehow I ended up at retirement. Which is proof that God has a sense of humor.

  • Gamera977

    Completely agree!!! Plus Madeleine L’Engle, Kate Wilhelm and Tanith Lee were other great lady authors consigned to the memory hole.

  • I’m guessing that McCaffrey will be the next to be unpersoned now that she has passed. LeGuin is hanging on by her fingernails, and has spent the last year talking about how she wasn’t “really a woman” when she wrote all her early stuff because she supposedly was thinking too much like a male and in a “male” industry. What stuff and f%^king nonsense. What makes it worse it that it’s primarily women doing this to other women, so that the new generation can make the claim to be bravely overcoming oppression and marginalization. Makes me sick.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I always liked Doris Piserchia’s novels.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Has LeGuin lost her mind?

  • Eric Hinkle

    About Ursula LeGuin, I’ve been told that she died this past January?

  • I did not realize she had passed, I saw the quotes sometime in the last 6 months or so and assumed she was still around, but as we all know the internet is forever. I wish I could remember where I saw it now.

    Now, I do think she was probably speaking more politically/metaphorically about the state of the industry in the 60s than in line with current gender and definition issues. But in the wake of the whole Hugo kerfluffle with its insistence that previous generations of women writers didn’t exist, it came across to me as extremely self-serving.

  • I don’t know her work, but it looks like Amazon has some of it dirt cheap for the Kindle. Will have to give it a try.

  • Joliet Jake Blues

    That Kuttner story has just been reprinted in book form as part of an “ace double” by DMR books. Its good fun.